Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-11 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:55:40PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:52:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: As I recall, the OPL has a thing equivalent to the GNU FDL's Cover Texts. The GNU FDL's Cover Texts are immutable and unremovable, and so are the OPL's. What it

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:08:38PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:55:40PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Don't look now, but Creative Commons publishes somewhere around half a dozen licenses :-) (Though some are pretty blatantly non-free) (No ridiculously excessive

Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, I have some documentation and documentation-like material that I am getting ready to release, and figured this would be an opportune time to ask this question: What license do people here recommend for doing so? I like some of the aims of the FDL (*NOT* the invariant sections), such as

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:51:22AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: What license do people here recommend for doing so? I should add that I want a license that guarantees that all receipients of modified versions get the full original rights. (Similar to the GPL rather than BSD in that respect.) --

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I should add that I want a license that guarantees that all receipients of modified versions get the full original rights. (Similar to the GPL rather than BSD in that respect.) Then use the GPL, version 2 only.

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:51:22AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: * Open Publication License; debian-legal archives show that it may have been considered free at one time but now is questionable. Can anyone shed some light there? As I recall, the OPL has a thing equivalent to the GNU FDL's

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread Dylan Thurston
On 2003-09-10, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I should add that I want a license that guarantees that all receipients of modified versions get the full original rights. (Similar to the GPL rather than BSD in that respect.) Then use the GPL,

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:52:35PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:51:22AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: * Open Publication License; debian-legal archives show that it may have been considered free at one time but now is questionable. Can anyone shed some

Re: Preferred license for documentation

2003-09-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:55:40PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Don't look now, but Creative Commons publishes somewhere around half a dozen licenses :-) (Though some are pretty blatantly non-free) (No ridiculously excessive license proliferation here, folks! Nope!) -- Glenn Maynard